I haven’t seen any news out there so I think it’s really useful to make you all know that a new Ubuntu Desktop Course has been released, it’s written on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS,
Read more »Ubuntu Desktop Course 8.04 available
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Fedora 11 Review
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A review of Fedora that tries to cover all the different versions and do a short comparison between them.
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Ubuntu-ized GNU Screen is Faster and Friendlier
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GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer program that Linux folk have used for ages. It allows you to turn one terminal into many, and run processes even after logging out. In this article we will give a brief overview of screen usage for the uninitiated, then talk about how Ubuntu's defaults and new screen-profiles package have taught us about new and wonderful features of screen.
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Microsoft Antitrust in Europe, Russia, South Korea
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Ongoing Microsoft abuses receive the attention of more than one nation
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Microsoft Accused of Lying About Market Share
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If Microsoft lies about market share to the courts, imagine how much it can lie to the public
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Microsoft Wants to Charge $50 Per GNU/Linux Desktop
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Xandros plays ball for Microsoft by offering software patent "protection" as a product
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Open Source Society appeals to Auditor-General
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The New Zealand Open Source Society is calling on Auditor-General to scrutinise government procurement of Microsoft software after the collapse of negotiations for a new three-year all-of-government software licensing deal.
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Mozilla and Google Announce HTML-Based Extensions
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It appears that great minds think alike (or in the case of open-source software and the close-ties between Google and Mozilla, share-alike). Within a week of each other both Mozilla and Google have announced new initiatives to allow for extensions to their browsers to be written using regular HTML / JavaScript and CSS, greatly lowering the bar for developers to join in.
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Novell sees 25 per cent growth in Linux sales
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Novell has reported a year-on-year fall in second-quarter revenue, but a small rise in profit as a result of a 25 per cent growth in Linux product sales.
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Open-source software firms are flourishing, but are also becoming less distinctive
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MANY technology firms are floundering amid the recession. But many of the ones that offer services tied to open-source software—free programs written by volunteers who collaborate online—are boasting double-digit growth. Sales at Red Hat, the world’s biggest independent open-source firm with annual revenues of $653m, grew by 18% year-on-year in the first quarter.
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Poll: 90 per cent are satisfied with the Eclipse development environment
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The Eclipse Foundation has published the results of the global Eclipse Community Survey 2009 in The Open Source Developer ReportPDF. The Foundation held the survey from mid-April to mid-May in order to get developer feedback on the tools and software that they use. The organisation wanted to learn how the respondents used open source software and how they interacted with the Eclipse community.
Read more »Virtual Linux desktops tapped by UN
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NComputing has joined a United Nations program to bring 1,000 Linux-based NComputing desktops to schools in developing countries. NComputing also announced that several electric utilities in the U.S. and Canada have qualified its "one-Watt" devices for purchase rebates and rate discounts.
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The Colorful Conky Desktop
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Reader Sean's desktop proves that Linux can be bright, colorful, and geeky all at the same time—there's no reason to be stuck with brown.
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Delete Unnecessary Files From Your Desktop With BleachBit On Ubuntu 9.04
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This guide shows how you can install and use BleachBit on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop to delete unnecessary files. BleachBit deletes unnecessary files (such as cache, cookies, Internet history, localizations, logs, temporary files, and broken shortcuts) to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk.
Read more »Linux Mint 7 Is Based on Ubuntu 9.04
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Clement Lefebvre and the community behind the Linux Mint project proudly announced last night on their official blog the immediate availability of the final release of the Linux Mint 7 (codename Gloria) operating system. Linux Mint 7 is based on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and it is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.28, X.org 7.4 and GNOME 2.26.1.
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